The 2019 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for Conference USA that was held at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, from March 13 through March 16, 2019. In the first round and quarterfinals, two games were played simultaneously within the same arena, with the courts separated by a curtain. Rice won the conference tournament championship game over Middle Tennessee, 69–54. Nancy Mulkey was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
Seeds The top twelve teams will qualify for the tournament. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord Tiebreaker1Rice16–025–32UAB12–424–53Middle Tennessee11–520–91–0 vs. UAB4Western Kentucky11–517–130–1 vs. UAB5Old Dominion10–620–91–0 vs. USM6Marshall10–616–130–1 vs. USM7Charlotte9–717–111–0 vs. WKU8Southern Miss9–717–120–1 vs. WKU9North Texas7–914–1410Louisiana Tech6–1014–1511UTEP5–118–2112Florida Atlantic2–146–232–1 vs. FIU, UTSAFIU2–145–241–2 vs. FAU, UTSAUTSA2–147–210–2 vs. FIU, FAU‡ – C–USA regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.# – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament.Overall records include all games played in the regular season.
Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First round – Wednesday, March 131111:00 am#8 Southern Miss vs #9 North TexasESPN+211:30 am#5 Old Dominion vs #12 Florida Atlantic231:30 pm#7 Charlotte vs #10 Louisiana Tech1,92142:00 pm#6 Marshall vs #11 UTEP Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 143511:00 am#1 Rice vs #9 North TexasStadium611:30 am#4 Western Kentucky vs #5 Old DominionESPN+471:30 pm#2 UAB vs #7 CharlotteStadium82:00 pm#3 Middle Tennessee vs #11 UTEPESPN+ Semifinals – Friday, March 15595:30 pm#1 Rice vs #4 Western KentuckyStadium2,592108:00 pm#2 UAB vs #3 Middle Tennessee Championship – Saturday, March 166114:30 pm#1 Rice vs #3 Middle TennesseeCBSSN *Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket
All times listed are Central
See also 2019 Conference USA men's basketball tournament
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